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Shaping the future of agricultural intelligence.

Notes from the team building KissanAI, Dhenu, and FieldFoundry. On AI in agriculture, the data and models behind agricultural intelligence, and the practical realities of deploying it for farmers, agribusinesses, and researchers.

A US crop advisor and operations manager reviewing field history, scouting, weather, imagery, and follow-through on a large corn operation.

FIELDFOUNDRY

Field memory: where agent memory meets the real world
Illustrated cover for Krishi.System podcast 'Artificial Intelligence Deepdive with Two Desais' featuring Pratik Desai, Venky Ramachandran, and Sachi Desai.

PODCAST

Two Desais on Krishi.System: where AI advice for farmers actually comes from
Logo grid for India's 100 Top AI Start-ups 2026, showing KissanAI alongside Sarvam, Krutrim, Phot.AI, Karya, and other Indian AI startups from page 1 of the Indiaspora-Zinnov report.

ANNOUNCEMENT

KissanAI is in India's 100 Top AI Start-ups, 2026
FieldFoundry, the AI Command Center for Agriculture

LAUNCH

Today we are announcing FieldFoundry
Pratik at the KissanAI pod in Hall 2 during the India AI Impact Summit at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.

INDIA AI SUMMIT

Five days at the India AI Impact Summit
A geometric innovation prism rising from an agricultural data landscape.

ANNOUNCEMENT

IndiaAI Innovation Challenge: KissanAI receives the ₹25 lakh recognition
A 5x4 grid of 20 named agents that ship with Dhenu Platform, from Agri-Business Ops Command and Carbon Verification Sentinel through Pest Outbreak Shield, Procurement Quality Guard, and Soil Health Historian.

LAUNCH

Dhenu Platform is live: agentic AI for agriculture, built on NVIDIA
An agricultural agent workflow moving from farmer voice to planning, retrieval, field action, validation, and human review.

AGENTIC AI

How we shipped agentic harnesses for agriculture
An illustration of two onlookers reading Latin graffiti scratched into a Pompeii wall, with Vesuvius in the distance.

AGENTIC AI

Writing on the Wall: How Overlooked Data Can Fortify Legacy Industries
An agriculture AI benchmark scorecard with radar, regional, safety, and uncertainty views.

BENCHMARKS

Trust in AI for agriculture starts with benchmarks
An understated recognition trophy beside agricultural research material and an AI crop interface.

RECOGNITION

On the AIM 100 list, and what I think it actually signals
Twenty-two language nodes arranged around a phone, divided into voice-enabled and text-enabled groups.

INDIA OPS

22 languages is not 22 translations
The colorful Thinking Dhenu research artwork used for the reasoning model preview.

DHENU

Reasoning SLM for agriculture: research preview
A modern Maharashtra farm operator and adviser examining the harvest beside contemporary farm equipment.

FIELD STORY

A Maharashtra farmer's harvest with AI
A data atlas linking crops, varieties, pests, diseases, inputs, weather, locations, and farmer conversations.

METHODOLOGY

Building agriculture knowledge graphs from messy multilingual data
Nebius Spotlight GTC 2025 video thumbnail with Pratik Desai of KissanAI, recorded at the Nebius and GeekWire Studios booth at NVIDIA GTC.

PODCAST

Pratik on the Nebius Spotlight at GTC 2025
A paper collage connecting agricultural research institutions around a shared benchmark and crop specimen.

AI AGRIBENCH

Founding the AI AgriBench consortium
A split-screen data graphic contrasting fragmented field events with a connected operational timeline.

INDUSTRY

The visibility gap nobody talks about
An isometric prototype separated from production agriculture by missing integration, compliance, data, workflow, and ownership bridges.

INDUSTRY

Why agriculture AI gets stuck at pilot
Dhenu 2 (Llama3.1-Dhenu2-In-8B-Instruct) model card artwork: a stylised cow head against an isometric 3D landscape with circuits and crop motifs, branded 'DHENU 2: 8B'.

DHENU

What is actually new in Dhenu 2
An agricultural technology team testing sensors in a field against the rolling hills of the Bay Area.

COMMUNITY

What the Bay Area AgTech ecosystem looks like in late 2024
An open global research network connecting agriculture with code, science, and community contributions.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Why we joined the AI Alliance
A voice waveform carrying language, weather, pest, and crop context while a chat box remains secondary.

VOICE AI

Voice-first, not chat-first
An editorial media collage showing an agricultural AI podcast mention spreading through audio and social channels.

PRESS

KissanGPT got a shoutout on The Ranveer Show
An editorial technology map of India connecting language, compute, open models, and agriculture.

INDUSTRY

Made-in-India LLMs and where Dhenu fits
KissanAI accepted to NVIDIA Inception

ANNOUNCEMENT

KissanAI joins NVIDIA Inception
A pencil sketch of a podcast microphone sending green sound waves toward a small emerging sprout.

PODCAST

Pratik on Emergent Behavior: growth strategy for an AI in farming
JioGenNext Founder Talk video thumbnail featuring Pratik Desai, Lokesh Desai, and Chintan Papaiya of KissanAI.

PODCAST

Three of us on the JioGenNext Founder Talk
Meta's blue mark and the original Dhenu cow logo connected by a data-line handshake above agricultural fields.

DHENU

Open-sourcing Dhenu Llama 3
YouTube thumbnail for 'AI Revolution in Agriculture: KissanAI's Journey | #ScaleUpThursday' on the Microsoft Reactor channel.

PODCAST

Pratik on Microsoft #ScaleUpThursday
Dhenu Vision model card artwork: a vibrant stylised cow head wearing an Indian-style turban, headdress, sunglasses and traditional jewellery, with the words DHENU VISION below.

DHENU

Dhenu Vision: a multimodal model for the field
AIISC Founder Talk video thumbnail: Bridging Knowledge Gaps in Agriculture with Generative AI by Pratik Desai.

PODCAST

AIISC: bridging knowledge gaps in agriculture with generative AI
A small Indian agricultural AI team reacting to a shortlist notification in its field-side workspace.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Shortlisted in the IndiaAI Innovation Challenge
A woman farmer using a voice copilot connected to weather, water, crops, field partners, and a global development network.

ANNOUNCEMENT

KissanAI and UNDP: a CoPilot for farmers
A conference worktable in New Delhi connecting global AI policy with agricultural research.

COMMUNITY

GPAI India Summit 2023: AI for the Global South
A technical model-building diagram connecting agricultural conversations and publications to curation, training, and agronomy applications.

DHENU

Dhenu 1.0: training a domain LLM for Indian agriculture
A modern Indian farmer and agronomist contrasting a generic answer with state availability, crop stage, weather, and local product access.

INDUSTRY

Why generic LLMs miss agriculture
A product team reviewing early, anonymized farmer-question patterns from KissanGPT.

FIELD NOTES

What six weeks of farmer questions taught us
A farmer in Gujarat holding a phone, with KissanGPT on screen

FOUNDING STORY

KissanGPT: a small experiment, in Gujarati
A modern Indian farmer using a voice-first agricultural assistant while a farm manager checks the crop.

LAUNCH

Introducing KissanGPT: the first voice-based vernacular AI for Indian farmers